Is there any other indications? If it is from the GRE (which a quick Googling doesn't discount) could there be personally identifiable information in there? If so, you need to put a fraud alert or whatever the kids are calling it these days on your credit report at the three bureaus. Identity theft is bad mojo.
Also, you'll want to check your credit report in a month or two. It's free, and you can head off any negative effects before they fester and cause you problems when you actually need that credit:
The only other distinguishing feature is that it's a vertical envelope rather than a horizontal one, and I associate that shape with pamphlets rather than real mail. Combined with the fact that the GRE-prep stuff is not exactly the same as the GRE proper, this makes me wonder if perhaps the mail was an advertisement.
I'm hoping there's no identity theft going on here (seriously, why would someone steal my info and then drop the empty envelope back into the mail? That's a very Riddler approach to crime), but criminals can be a wacky bunch. A credit report would indeed be a good idea.
Yeah, you might want to put the fraud alert on now and give the credit report a week or two, to make sure everything that might have happened between the theft and the freeze makes it to the report. That really sucks. I had a scare a while back, fortunately it panned out. You never know these days.
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Also, you'll want to check your credit report in a month or two. It's free, and you can head off any negative effects before they fester and cause you problems when you actually need that credit:
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/credit/freereports.htm
That sucks.
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I'm hoping there's no identity theft going on here (seriously, why would someone steal my info and then drop the empty envelope back into the mail? That's a very Riddler approach to crime), but criminals can be a wacky bunch. A credit report would indeed be a good idea.
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